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Sunday, 5 July 2015

Dr.
Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently serving jail term in United States prison, has
made all Muslims proud and happy by keeping her fasts in this Holy month of
Ramadan. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been fasting regularly despite of the fact that
she is getting a bottle of water and bread for both Iftar and Suhoor. Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui was born on March 02, 1972 and was a Pakistani who gained a degree in
neuroscience from the United States. She immigrated to the United States of
America in 1990 and then proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. from the Brandels
University in 2001.

In
the earlier months of 2003, during the Afghanistan war, which had been mainly
caused by severe conflicts between the Al Qaeda and the United States, she
returned to her homeland Pakistan. In
March of the same year she was named as a courier / messenger as well as a
financier for the Al Qaeda by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. The American Federal
Bureau of Investigation also known as the FBI subsequently placed Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui on the list of “WANTED FOR QUESTIONING”.Shortly afterwards she
disappeared off the face of the earth for quite some time before she was
finally arrested from Ghazni in Afghanistan by the Afghanistan police on 17
July 2008. Along with Dr, Aafia Siddiqui the police found many notes, documents
and other paperwork which clearly showed how to properly make bombs; they also
found many containers of sodium cyanide. She was then held for further
questioning by both Afghanistan police and American authorities.

While
in custody Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was shot in the torso by the United States Army
and Federal Bureau of Investigations Personnel as they claimed that she shot at
them first with a rifle which was placed near her by one of the United States’
interrogators.Since little over a year the American authorities have refused
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui the right to contact her family and by the pictures which
were leaked of her in detention, she seems to be kept in a horrible state.

Ever
since Dr. Aafia Siddiqui had been sentenced to 86 years behind bars, the family
and supporters of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui have protested against this verdict back
in Pakistan.Before her communication with her family was cut off she described
her first Ramadan behind bars to her family saying that it was very hard but
she was braving these days as she thought it was a test by God for her and she
wanted to complete the test

Dr.
Aafia Siddiqui’s family states that since Dr. Aafia was a little girl she has
been regularly fasting in the month of Ramadan. They stated that she was
probably 8 or 9 years old when she started to fast and has kept all her fasts
ever since.Her family stated that since she was a young girl she did not care
whether it was too hot or whether she had to go to school, she would adamantly
fast and participates in the setting up and serving of Iftar and Suhoor.